“Had it been a stand-alone vote, I don’t think you would have seen Bill Howell voting for the gasoline tax down in Hampton Roads,” he said. “The idea that a local government can be drawn into this transportation authority in Hampton Roads even if it doesn’t want to, that doesn’t sit well with me, either. But in the scheme of things, I support it.” –Bill Howell (R-Fredericksburg), Speaker of the House of Delegates. (From: “Virginia ‘s anti-tax champion took a road less traveled,” The Virginia Pilot, 3/26/07)
There you have it folks! Bill Howell tells us how Virginia will be governed in the future!
Individually, these bills can’t pass. So you simply bundle them together into mammoth bills and go for an up or down vote so that legislators can’t cherry-pick them.
And what about the single-object rule of the Virginia Constitution, you may ask? It just gets trampled along with the Republican principles and other nonsense, such as lower taxes and smaller government.
Any potential candidates out there willing to challenge Bill Howell in a primary this June?